A Fable for Tomorrow

from Avalanche by The Wine-Dark Sea

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Originally a song about Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, turned into a song about an unnamed current president trying to build a wall around himself from the rest of the world, ultimately choking to death.

Tomorrow, Bear Offal

lyrics

Hydrofluorocarbons
Choking air and sea
Keep our man in comfort
The cost of breathing free

He builds his bunker walls high
Claims you’ll be alright
Buys a shield of white noise
Hears no cries at night

The only thing that trickles down
is death, disease, and blight

Add the mortar
One more stone

Dichlorodiphenyl
trichloroethane
Seeps between the seams
And still the gap remains

Locked in, disengaged
Freedom from our context
Eyes only on his pay

The only thing that trickles down
is death, disease, and blight

Add the mortar
One more stone

Built without connection
he wants a lullaby
Not part of society
Boxed out of this world

He lays down the final seams today
To keep the weather out

He can’t breathe
He can’t breathe
No one hears him shout

He can’t breathe
He can’t breathe
No bailout

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from Avalanche, released September 1, 2017
The Wine-Dark Sea

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The Wine-Dark Sea Washington, D.C.

Vince
Kristian
Raphael

Occasionally complicated, always rocking. Tasty.

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Avalanche

Sep 2017
Geographies

Dec 2014
The Thaw

Nov 2012

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